White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Sunday tried to laugh off Fox News host Maria Bartiromo’s question about an alleged physical altercation that reportedly erupted between top Trump ally-turned-detractor Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Citing a news report from The Washington Post that now-departed DOGE boss Musk body-checked Bessent during a blow-out over a difference in opinion at the White House in April, Bartiromo said: “We’re all trying to figure out what happened here and how come this got to this level.”

She then asked Leavitt, “What happened? Did he body-check the Treasury Secretary in the White House?”

Leavitt chuckled and tried to spin the clash as one of the “healthy disagreements amongst the cabinet and Elon Musk” that she claimed only “rea

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